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this is called "Not Taking My ADHD Medication"

I was asked in the comments of gravis' ADHD post today what my ADHD book recommendations were because I was lamenting that they were the best I had, and still only helped me understand, but not really adapt, my world to ADHD.

But then other people found it helpful, so I'll just post it somewhere it's shareable.

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for ADHD (all of these are on Audible):

• Laziness Does not Exist (from the author of Unmasking Autism, mostly pointing things out and saying 'this is you it's not a thing to fight or a failing' and then going into the research. Written by someone in the community, but who also has a PhD. Bridges a good gap between research and community Veers into a screed against capitalism, which is cool but I wish it wasn't padding the book. Some pretty good strategies to redirect things instead of fighting them. Def gave me a better outlook on some of my things, even though I'd been actively working on my ADHD for decades before reading it.
• You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy? written by authors from the community, and not researchers. It's all over the place and perhaps needs a stronger editor, and suffers from being rewritten in 2006 instead of more recently, but it's still worthwhile imo. Also one of the few places I've heard anyone outside of psychiatric research discuss the thing where many ADHD people are desensitized to specifically oral sex for some reason.
• honorable mention to Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, it wasn't helpful to me but it did give me a good breadth of systems to try and fail at, which gave me a great idea of what did and didn't work

for Autism (also on audible):

• Unmasking Autism, one of the best books for "look, here are all the different ways your brain works, here's how to help some of them, and here's how to understand it better". As someone who's been in online autistic and autistic-led-research spaces for years, it had new things even for me. Highly, highly recommended read